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Room to Read
1:32 am
Fri April 5, 2013

One man's fight against illiteracy around the world

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John Wood
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By Barbara Gray

It is estimated that there are 775 million people around the world who can’t read. Former Microsoft senior executive John Wood tell his story of starting a worldwide literacy effort in his book Creating Room to Read and he speaks by phone with our Barbara Gray to share this amazing story. Room to Read is now operating programs all over Asia and Africa.

1890's Kentucky Murder
1:32 am
Fri April 5, 2013

"The Perils of Pearl Bryan"

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Back in the 1890’s, Pearl Bryan was brutally murdered in one of the more grisly, yet fascinating, crimes in Kentucky history. That story is now recounted by author James McDonald in his book The Perils of Pearl Bryan, and he’s on the phone Lee Hay to discuss this story.

Author Amy Stewart
1:31 am
Fri April 5, 2013

"The Drunken Botanist"

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Pretty much every spirit known to man begins life as some sort of plant: sake began with a grain of rice; scotch emerged from barley; tequila from agave; rum from sugarcane; and bourbon from corn.

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